Ember Charter School High School

About the project

Ember Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation (ECS) is a K-12 college preparatory community where excellent teachers prepare a student body consisting of primarily Black and Hispanic/Latino students to have a positive impact on society and a lifelong passion for learning. Ember received its initial charter in 2010 and opened for instruction in 2011. Ember’s mission is to ignite, empower and transform students traditionally labeled “at-risk” into social entrepreneurs, engineers, and global leaders through its innovative, holistic, and progressive human development school model. 

ECS enrolls a majority of its students from NYC Geographic District 16 and surrounding Brooklyn, NY neighborhoods. 

LISC provided $4.50 million of construction financing to support leasehold improvements at a former warehouse for ECS's high school. Once completed, the school will serve 150 9th-12th graders. ECS strives to use trauma informed care to empower students to heal and thrive interpersonally from their exposure to the deeply debilitating trauma of persistent and pervasive poverty, racism, and marginalization. It is Ember’s goal that the young people they serve will emerge into adulthood as whole and healthy people well skilled in engaging in deep and thoughtful analysis about our country’s and world’s biggest problems, and with brave and kind hearts and brilliant minds to pose the big ideas that can solve them.

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